I remember reading that Max's dog was a stray they found that was super easy to train so they didn't have to spring for some 'actor' dog, and then one of the crew took him home forever. Best dog ever!
It was actually Mr. Mel Gibson that took him home himself. He named him Hudson. He was 3 years at the time of filming. He was 18 when he passed if I read and recollect correctly. Hudson was shown in more movies after Mad Max 2: Fury Road. In the first Mad Max, the Golden Retriever was also a stray dog that was quite hilariously and ironically named by Mel "Goldy. Goldy was 5 years old when in the first Mad Max. He lived to be 15. Mel adopted and cared for both. Mel was a dog sanctuary caretaker. Fun fact: He absolutely grew attached to Hudson during filming that in the first week, him and Hudson only followed each other around set in between filming.
@@garrettlarson2606 Garrett i'll think youll find that a Max 2 stuntmen by the name Gerry Gausla put his hand up for Dog and took him back to his home on the south coast of NSW.I will ask Kim about Dogs passing age and other film work.
The first movie was just a dystopian future Australia with roving criminal gangs taking over and the police unable to stop them. The 2nd and subsequent films moved the timeline forward to after the fall of society in a "wasteland"
As mediumvillain said, the first Mad Max movie is set during the last stages of the collapse of society, so roads, infrastructure, even the police force, are all still around, albeit barely. But Mad Max 2 is set more than ten years later, in a world without law and order, and by the time you get to Thunderdome it's just complete wasteland chaos. I don't know if Fury Road is in this timeline, I don't think it is personally, but if it is then that's the ultimate wasteland, I mean, like decades upon decades after the collapse of civilisation, where the oceans have dried up and the infrastructure has been buried under sand dunes. In Mad Max: The Game (an awesome game by the way) it's implied that civilisation actually collapsed sometime in the 2000s, with photographs of cars from the 1990s. If this is true, then Mad Max: Fury Road and Mad Max: The Game exist in their own seperate timeline. Anyway, yeah, nah, the original three movies are the three stages of societal collapse.
@@a.m11558 After adjusting the timeline in the tie-in comics, Fury Road does take place after Beyond Thunderdome, and the game is "non-canon" to the film timeline. As for the Furiosa prequel that's under development, we'll have to see how far back it takes place.
I'M A 56 YEAR OLD AMERICAN MALE AND WE LOVED THE MAD MAX SERIES BACK IN THE DAY AND STILL DO, CHEERS TO AUSTRALIA FROM AMERICA, GREAT MEMORIES AND A CLASSIC!!!🇺🇲🇦🇺🎉👍🏻
@@govetter ...except that that blower wasn't even hooked up to the engine, and the Red button turned an electric motor on and off, instead of controlling a blower clutch. A shame, that.
@@govetter there is a company in the U.S. which imports Falcon XB jalopies from Australia, and turns them into Interceptors, and one of the options is to actually make the blower fully functional, I know - I asked.
@0:08-1:30 The precise moment Max's soul is sucked into the supercharger, and bound to the souls of thousands upon thousands of vengeful innocent souls taken before their time,wailing from the Wastelands and beyond the grave, thus binding him forever to his one true soulmate.
that car was personification of Max's madness and revenge. Seeing it crashed on the beginning of second movie broke my heart. well you can always return back to the first one...
I always thought the interceptor got a bad deal on the 2nd movie and fury road. If max is the MFP's top patrol driver why can't he do some evasive driving thus saving his car?
I love how in the scene where max gets shot in the leg the police radio actually talks about his car and how its been located it's overshadowed by the music but you can clearly hear the dispatch operator talking about what he did on the bridge with the car clearly showing that he's being chased by the cops because of him stealing the car but can't find him because he's always one step ahead of them
@@Tommyblueeyes He's talking about Spock when he dies in Star Trek 2 The Wrath Of Khan........as a kid of the 80s it made you cry.......and the only other thing as sad was watching Max's car get destroyed is what he meant.
It used to piss me off so much that in both Road Warrior and Fury Road they destroy the Interceptor, the very ride of Max himself. It was such a cool car and I always thought (and still do, to a degree) that he should have been allowed to keep it all throughout one or both of those movies, sort of like how the hero gunslinger always has his black steed. However, then I started thinking from a storyteller's perspective, and it actually made more sense. The story wants Max to interact with other people, have a chance to bond and form various relationships, some good, some bad, but above all else, he can not be allowed to remain a loner. If that happened the story would go nowhere. And the Interceptor is the one thing that allows Max to drive away from people, to remove himself from the story and just remain an outcast with nothing and no one to interact with. So from the narrative point of view, I understand perfectly why it has to be done. But it still hurts when that machine is trashed... every. single. time.
Para mi lo más triste fue ver la muerte de perro, debieron dejarlo al lado de mad max y en sus películas ya que sería más legendario un guerrero de la carretera junto a su fiel perro
Rest In peace Mr Grant Page. The stuntman in all the scenes that made this movie great has just passed away. Australian Icon. Thanks buddy for so many iconic memories.
Hopefully GM makes at least one more movie centered on Max and the Interceptor. It was pretty much forgotten in Fury Road. Would be awesome if he would bring back old Mel to play Max one last time.
@@peterfissa8556 It was all show, and no go. Actual superchargers can't be turned off and on; you'd blow your engine. They fabricated one out of parts of a real Weiand supercharger and a Folgers coffee can.
2020 and I still feel the need to look up the V8 Interceptor. These movies were my childhood. Real stunts real speeds (sped up in places I know) real danger, the tumbling stuntman getting a bike around the back of the head is testament to that. Awesome films 👍
@@govetter THAT's what I tell anyone who would listen! It's the Last of tha Pontiacs! And now, I'm MAD! Chasing tankers..., clippin' bikers. Loadin' my Double-barrel, and NOT hitting the RED button, Mostly!
This is by far the best car MOVIE EVER the reason I bought a vehicle with a roots style blower is because of this movie!!! Every one needs to see the original MAD MAX!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The V8 Interceptor in Mad Max 1 and Mad Max 2 was a XB GT Ford Falcon Coupe (JG66) The one they Destroyed in Mad Max 2 was a Standard XB Ford Falcon Coupe tricked up to look like the V8 Interceptor and was used for all the Stunt Work in Mad Max 2 and the Original Car was used for close ups in Mad Max 2. XB GT Ford Falcon Coupes are a Muscle Car in Australia and are a rare car alone, so for the V8 Interceptor to be a GT Falcon Coupe it just add to the value.
I grew up seeing lots of iconic movie cars. Smokey and the Bandit, Dukes of Hazzard, Knight Rider and more. Although in my humble opinion nothing holds a fuel injector to the black on black, blown, monza-d interceptor.
4:56 regardless if it is a motorcycle or car. Nothing in the World is as sweet as having a perfectly tuned machine flying down the road at incredible speeds. That mechanic might be goofy as Hell, but he had that car dialed in right that day!
@@dr.johannesmunch891 oh STOP. Cars pollute less than ever. Go drive your 6000 lbs Tesla that has 3000 lbs of batteries and charge it off a diesel generator.
I love how all the madmax films have a mix of straight dialogue and quirky character traits along with straight to the point characterizations that put all the characters but max into the comfortable borderline between realistic and camp making Maxs' low key straight man characterization very grounded. All the films seem to be like that. Toecutter, humongous, master blaster, almost everybody in fury road they all have the feel of like a pirates of the Caribbean Disney ride. They are all uniquely quirky while also being able to communicate to the audience exactly what they are about in a glance or a single line of dialogue. There just is no movie series that pulls it off like Mad Max.
Yeah, there is something about high speed gritty car chases that bleeds dopamine into my brain. Not shitty, really over the top ones, but ones like these. All the mad max movies have wicked car action.
Was most profitable move for 20 years until the Blair Witch Project. Love the movie since I was a kid when it came out. The fake blower always bothered me though.
When GTA came out with the Arena Wars DLC, and there was a car based on Max's Interceptor. You're damn right I bought the thing and made the car look exactly like his Interceptor. A truly beautiful iconic movie car.
Less than 15 minutes of screen time and this car manage to get into every heart of each mad max interceptor fan. Part of me wishes that the interceptor wasn't wrecked :( At least we got it to see it a little bit un fury road. Thanks for this video :D
Quando il film è uscito in Italia, con gli amici l'abbiamo visto 3 proiezioni di seguito. Spettacolo delle 16,00 delle 18,15 e delke 20,30. Avevamo 19 anni. Un capolavoro assoluto. Grande Max
For movie buffs and people who like R&B. The first Mad Max was mostly filmed in and around a township called little river 40 minutes outside Melbourne Australia. The Australian band Little river named themselves after passing a road sign indicating the same little river township.
Used to own one of these cars. It was a factory ordered 1974 Ford Falcon XB Fairmont coupe, 351 GS(grand sports) 3 speed auto. Blue in colour with white interior, blue cloth seat inserts and a sunroof. Awesome car but used to get pretty car sick in the back seat. Sold it for $2800 in '79. On a sad note, it got flattened a few months later by a semi-trailer in Cooma. Would have been worth about $80-100k now.
Alden R. Davis it was innovative, but the base of the vehicles in Mad Max were American. The Interceptor was the Aussie version of a Ford Galaxy, same chassis.
2:26 - Loved the presumably unintentional yet genuine "beep beep beep" horn sound as the bike crashed with the left side of the handlebar hitting the dirt which made sense.
@@anthonypoindexter6223 He was just Crazed-Mad. then the world changed? He hadta survive in the wastes. then The Gyro-Pilot banzaied his Caravan. Dad. Dad, were dead meat. we're dead Meat!
i was blessed to be an oil changer and part holder for a high performance marine shop in my youth. everytime they test ran a 1000hp super charged v8 this ran through my head.
The original Australian cult classic, one of the most awesome movies ever made. The Interceptor was a true hot rod. No one knows how to pound out the hot rods of the world like us and the Aussies.
Yeh my dad has one of those Chevy Caprice old cop cars that’s just a rebadged Holden. I drove that thing while my car was in the shop without realizing how much power it had and needless to say it’s terrifying compared to my Honda Civic lmao
Definitely about the coolest car in any movie, and the simple visualizations and cinematography were pure genius. The remake "fury road" was total sacrilege to even try to relate it to the originals.
I thought Fury road was great (in my opinion). It was a film full of chases like Road warrior but the world is much more deadly which is why everything goes so much faster
Whenever I can't sleep at night I just put on the relaxing sounds of the interceptor's engine. It's roar and the supercharger whine just send me right to sleep, it is so soothing.
0:26 MUSIC TO MY EARS ! ! ! THE SOUND OF THAT SUPERCHARGED V8 NITRO-INJECTED ENGINE WHEN IT STARTS UP ! ! ! WHAT A BEAUTIFUL SOUND THAT IS ! ! !👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
This movie had style right down to the super charger intake scoop, never saw one like before or since. Miller proved he knew how to make the best use of the vehicles as integral to the story and not just window dressing.
You probably meant Pursuit Special (black one), which was '73 Ford Falcon XB GT, Interceptor (Max's first car) was 1974 Ford Falcon XB Sedan, ex Victoria Police Interceptor.
@@milllosh Yeah but try telling that to everyone these days..Its basically been renamed the interceptor just as Aussies cant grab the Moll/Mole difference either so they rewrote that.
@@Tommyblueeyes Well, I wouldn't blame Australians for renaming the Pursuit Special to Interceptor, I think it was just easier for worldwide public to remember and mention the car in a conversation. Happens with a lot of things. But then who knows, I am calling it Pursuit Special as it was meant to be and I gave up on any explanation, the previous comment was just to clarify, in case someone reads boutch71's comment and starts googling the car.
I lived near the area Mad Max was filmed, and drove around the streets seeing all the tyre marks. And when you see the actual distance those cars had to get up to speed...WOW!!!
David Edwards hey David, please post back here, I am planning something special regarding max filming locations and would love to pick your brain and possibly put you on in a small role advising.
Most legendary car to ever exist. Kit and The General, sorry, but you gotta take the backseat. Just the sound of that engine and the blower get my adrenaline going.
All fast and furious combined..... Not even close to the pure adrenaline on this movie, no CGI, NO BS, ... first time i saw these movies.... mind blowing. The V8, the crew, the production, master mind George Miller and legend Mel Gibson.... best movies ever!!!
all due respect. Don't anyone compare this Australian cinematic genius to Hollywood. Hollywood has lost its flair. They do nothing but re-runs. Hollywood is a has-been. NEXT!
I agree ! In fact i always liked and thought Australia made better movies especially in the 70s -80s they might not had big well known actors but their acting and storylines were much better and more down to earth than Hollywood which has always been overrated .
@@nermin9376 yeah lol, just in the news last week..I could be wrong about the 2mill, but thats what I heard..just tried looking again but can only find the article about it being auctioned
@@Tommyblueeyes it was not wanted after Road Warrior and was in a bl9kes property rusting away under covers for years until a fan rescued it and got it for knicks then restored it.
Mad Max 1 is all time classic, & I bought myself a beautiful 1;18 scale model of the MM XB interceptor for christmas last year, it takes pride of place next to K.I.T.T of course!
Tommy Orr Jr ..it’s actually made by ‘Greenlight’ they make it in at least 3 sizes. Good value for money and a nice replica of the car! KITT is a Hot wheels, that’s a pretty nice one too, wasn’t too expensive either. Probably should mention I have all 3 Back to the Future DeLoreabs too! That aside, today I got to see real size Mad Max cars at the SupaNova comic con event in Melbourne today. They had the yellow pursuit cars and of course the big bad black interceptor😁
@@KnightIndustries572 Yeah the hotwheels Kitt is probably the best 1/18 replica. I know there is 2 of them, cant remember who makes the other.There is a side by side comparison somewhere on youtube
Let's not forget to Thank the brave and courageous road construction crew of that dreadful wasteland era for without their contribution Mad Max would not be possible. *crowd goes wild!!!*
@@cyberdynefirefox3681 MAD MAX (1979) is the best, Mad Max2: The Road Warrior (1981) is a good, and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) is a fine. By the way, I am a Japanese fan. In addition, there is a privately owned museum in Japan that displays interceptor replicas. Not only the interceptor but also the BTTF Delorian and Batman Car are on display at the museum, making it a very fun museum. www.ps-car.com/index.php
@@deathvoiceshout For me the 3. is fine only in ending in Post-Apocalyptic Sydney. Very impressive museum. In EU thanks EU union the old cars looks like would be history...
